Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist.It is the trust that they will not last forever,that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome.It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine...

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I'm supposed to be the soldier who never blows his composureEven though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders..

Bit by bit Torn apart We never win But the battle wages onFor toy soldiers!

Never wait for tomorrow since you don't know if you will really reach there.Never rely on what you did yesterday since this is the past.Your present is the most precious moment of your life since you are living it.Today is a new day...a day of excitement and adventure to accomplish things I have dared to try. Today is a day that I can wipe the slate clean and start all over...forgot about the troubles of yesterday,and welcome the happiness of today.The sun is shining bright,the air is clean, and I am alive to do whatever I please.Thank you God,for another day.

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I'm supposed to be the soldier who never blows his composureEven though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders..

Bit by bit Torn apart We never win But the battle wages onFor toy soldiers!

"As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him, or disbelieve Him, and I died.

What is this animation and dying? I do not live when I lose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live, really live, only when I feel Him and seek Him. “What more do you seek?” exclaimed a voice within me. “This is He. He is that without which one cannot live. To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.”

“Live seeking God, and then you will not live without God.” And more than ever before, all within me and around me lit up, and the light did not again abandon me." — Leo Tolstoy (A Confession)

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